McCain Shows His True Colors: Thinks Cindy Should be Miss Buffalo Chip

The McCains at Sturgis, and shots from the "beauty contest"

The trad media loved Johnny and Cindy at the Sturgis SD biker rally:

As the senator made his way through a sea of motorcycle enthusiasts, shaking hands with the many veterans in attendance and accompanied by his wife Cindy and Sen. John Thune, he was surrounded by scores of beer drinking men and scantily clad women, many of whom were as thrilled to see the war hero candidate as they were to watch Kid Rock perform later in the evening.

... Indeed, McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women. “I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”

I guess Mr. and Mrs. Family Values don't know what really goes on in Sturgis during the annual biker gathering. Or maybe they do. Some of the debauchery so prevalent there has more than a little in common with the drunken, womanizing behavior of "Top Guns" like McCain back in the day -- the era so many right-wingers yearn for. I wonder what the "moral majority" types think about the McCains hanging with the nasty, damned sinners. I wonder what straightlaced (at least in public) GOP Senate candidate Steve Pearce and oh-so-holy NM-01 candidate Darren White think about it. Law and order! The hypocrisy on the right side is almost beyond contemplation at times, isn't it?

Was McCain's behavior surprising? No way. He has a long tradition of denigrating women. Remember his joking about how they like to be raped by animals, or his making misogynistic jokes about Chelsea Clinton and the US Attorney General or how he called his wife a trollop and a c@nt? He's a good ol' boy, ain't he? Oh those dad-gum 'Merican values! No wonder all those males who like to think of themselves as "socially conservative" like him so much. They hate the gays but they love the misogyny....

Personally, I have no problems with what happpens in Sturgis or bikers in general. To each his (or her) own as long as they don't bother me. We happened to be traveling through South Dakota one time when the bikers were riding to Sturgis, and it was a hoot seeing them. But McCain holds himself up as a paragon of morality and so do many in his party. How does this campaign stop and what he had to say there jibe with that?

Imagine how the entrenched media would handle a visit by Barack and Michelle to Burning Man. Gasp. But if they covered that the way they covered the McCains in bikeland, it might read something like this (must read).

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